... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, after the group kidnapped more than 200 school girls in northern Nigeria.
During an anti-terrorism summit hosted by French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
in Gay Paree, Nigeria's President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
and representatives from Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin agreed on a mutual action plan to stop Boko Haram.
"We are here to declare war with Boko Haram," Cameroon's President Paul Biya told journalists at the end of the summit, which was also attended by the United States and Britannia.
Only a few hours before the summit began, about 200 Boko Haram gunnies killed two people and kidnapped 10 others in the town of Waza, near Cameroon's border with Nigeria.
| An Nahar notes the kidnappees were Chinese road workers, normally better guarded by Cameroonian Special Forces. |
The participants of the summit decided to strengthen the exchange of intelligence information in West Africa, coordinate the actions of their armies and military missions in Africa and increase border controls.
"These turbans already caused hurt in the sub-region. Allowing them to continue will place the entire sub-region, if not Africa, at risk of disorder," said Chad's President Idriss Deby.